Directing ( leadership )

It is the process of influencing the behaviour of people by making them strive voluntarily towards achievement of organisational goals.

• Supervision

• Communication

• Leadership

• Motivation

Anshul is a Marketing Manager in a firm engaged in production of eatables like chips, biscuits, namkeens etc. He handles a fairly large number of sales executives on daily basis. He gives high degree of freedom to his subordinates so that they can formulate their own objectives and ways to achieve them. He only supports them and provides them the needed information to complete the assigned task. Anshul does not believe in the use of powder unless it is absolutely essential to get the things done through his subordinates. Identify the leadership style followed by Anshul in the above case.

• Autocraric style

• Democractic Style

• Free-rein style

Umang Gupta is the Managing Director of Denver Ltd. The company had established a good name for itself and had been doing well. It was known for timely completion of orders. The Production Manager, Ms. Kanta was efficiently handling the processing of orders and had a team of fourteen motivated employees working under her. Everything was going on well. Unfortunately she met with an accident. Umang knew that in the absence of Ms. Kanta, the company may not be able to meet the deadlines. He also knew that not meeting the deadlines may lead to customer dissatisfaction with the risk of loss of business and goodwill. So, he had a meeting with his employees in which accurate and speedy processing of orders was planned. Everybody agreed to work as a team because the behaviour of Umang Gupta was positive towards the employees of the organisation. Hence everyone put in extra time and efforts and the targets were met on time.

• Autocratic style

• Democratic syle

• Free-rein style

Pramod was a supervisor at ‘Annapurna Aata’ factory. The factory was producing 200 quintals of aata every day. His job was to make sure that the work goes on smoothly and there was no interruption in production. He was a good leader who would give orders only after consulting his subordinates and work out the policies with the acceptance of the group.

Identify the leadership style being adopted by Pramod.

• Autocratic style

• Democratic style

• Laissez faire

Nikhil runs a small dhabba on the Jaipur highway. He is very rigid and follows a strict policy of punishment like cutting the salary, stopping increments or giving job termination threats to his workers for any kind of discrepancies in their work. He does not seek advice or opinions from his workers, as he does not have any confidence on the competence of his workers. Also, the workers are not willing to offer useful suggestions as they do not expect any motivation or incentive for taking such initiatives. As a result, the labour turnover is high and his business has been adversely affected.

In the above context identify leadership style

• Autocractic style

• Democratic

• Free rein

Mr. Umang Patel is the CEO of a leading software company. He is least concerned about the managerial development of his subordinates. The communication flows only from top to bottom in his organisation. identify style of leadership

• Autocratic

• Democratic

• Free rein

Ravish is the head of marketing department of his company. Recently he organised a series of meetings to know the suggestions of his team members on various issues. His subordinates appreciate his habit of consulting his team before he takes any major decisions. Identify style of leadership

• Autocratic

• Democratic

• Free rein